Effects of combined sewer overflow and stormwater on indicator bacteria concentrations in the tama river due to the high population density of Tokyo metropolitan area

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 152, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 459-468

  Ham, Young Sik ^a   Kobori, Hiromi ^a   Takasago, Masahisa ^a  

^a TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteriological water quality; CSO; Fecal coliform; Stormwater; Tama River; Tokyo; Total coliform

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY; CSO; FECAL COLIFORM; STORMWATER; TAMA RIVER; TOKYO; TOTAL COLIFORM;

BACTERIOLOGY; COLIFORM BACTERIA; COMBINED SEWERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFLUENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

STORM WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; EFFLUENT; FECAL COLIFORM; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER WATER; SEWER NETWORK; STORMWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECAL COLIFORM; HABITAT QUALITY; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWER OUTFALL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; RAIN; RIVERS; SEWAGE; TOKYO; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TAMA RIVER; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)];

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 63749086345     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0330-6     Document Type: Article

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